If Actually Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHDDIJEDDEEED EDDD DKCEELMNND| Where did the Sage withdraw to where did he disappear | A |
| After his many miracles | B |
| the renown of his teaching | C |
| which spread to so many countries | D |
| he suddenly hid himself and nobody knew for certain | E |
| what happened to him | F |
| nor did anybody ever see his grave | G |
| Some reported that he died at Ephesus | D |
| But Damis does not record that in his memoir | H |
| Damis says nothing about the death of Apollonios | D |
| Others said that he disappeared at Lindos | D |
| Or maybe the story is true | I |
| about his assumption in Crete | J |
| at the ancient sanctuary of Diktynna | E |
| But then again we have that miraculous | D |
| that supernatural apparition of his | D |
| before a young student at Tyana | E |
| Maybe the time has not yet come for him to return | E |
| and show himself to the world again | E |
| or maybe transfigured he moves among us | D |
| unrecognized But he will come again | E |
| as he was teaching the ways of truth and then of course | D |
| he will bring back the worship of our gods | D |
| and our elegant Hellenic rites | D |
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| These were the musings of one of the few pagans | D |
| one of the very few still left | K |
| as he sat in his shabby room just after reading | C |
| Philostratos' On Apollonios of Tyana | E |
| But even he a trivial and cowardly man | E |
| played the Christian in public and went to church | L |
| It was the time when Justin known as the elder | M |
| reigned in total piety | N |
| and Alexandria a godly city | N |
| detested pitiful idolators | D |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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